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Topic: Shutterstock 120$ comission...! wow! (Read 20987 times)

SS contacted me saying someone wanted to buy one of my non-people images under this license and that I should enable sensitive use 'til it sold and then disable. I responded they should allow disabling by model release - which they really should. I enabled my port. After a week with no sale, I disabled. Maybe I was too slow or the buyer found a different image or who knows. It would have been nice to get the big $ boost though.

SS contacted me saying someone wanted to buy one of my non-people images under this license and that I should enable sensitive use 'til it sold and then disable. I responded they should allow disabling by model release - which they really should. I enabled my port. After a week with no sale, I disabled. Maybe I was too slow or the buyer found a different image or who knows. It would have been nice to get the big $ boost though.

The exact same thing happened to me a couple of months ago. Was told that the buyer went in another direction. Was also told that SS was considering Sensitive Use on an image by image basis. Hope it happens!

...but this is not what buyers want to buy. So you as I can see you find trace option in Illustrator or Corel which made you Illustrator Master Blaster as you present yourself.

If you are offended with my piffle fell free to tick IGNORE button (its not harder than press Scan or Trace button which you are using so often in you lets say work)

Good luck

Hope you fell better after this? So much hate and frustration in you, things must not be going well for you to be complaining about other peoples portfolio. I'm the one working on it, why should you care?

So you as I can see you find trace option in Illustrator or Corel which made you Illustrator Master Blaster as you present yourself.

Do you take drugs? Illustrator Master Blaster... Maybe find something less nerdy next time if you want to insult, just had a good laugh . You try and do some of those type of image, you will see that there is a lot more than what you think you know.

And for your reference I do have also 700 hand drawn color illustrations and 320 video. Not sure what is your point. Not my fault if you didn't get those type of commissions. Stop crying start working, maybe you'll see results.

For my part I am not artistically proud of my portfolio, and I do know that it does not have the top level quality aspect your portfolio might have, but from a business point of view (yes this is a business, not an art gallery) I can say I would not switch my portfolio with yours . There ARE buyers for these type of images, I see 3.3k of them saying it each month in Shutterstock.

Finally I got one lobotomy follower

How many empty letters. Can you please hob-nob with you scanner and with make it good trace button in Illustrator...

Just had the same image sell 2 x SOD's today for a total of $168. First was in the UK a few hours ago for $18 and another just now from the US east coast for $150. Fairly ordinary image that's only been on-line for a couple of months too. It's definitely an aspect of SS that keeps growing.

Thank you! As it happens it is also the first time I've exceeded $250 from a single day from one agency alone. Not bad from a place where everyone keeps telling us we only earn "25c a download". My RPD as SS so far this month is currently running at $1.33. Good times for SS contributors!

Glad to hear that people are having big sales again! I never had one but I'm close to 100 downloads so I'm hoping I'm not far from a sale like that. Also, I'm seeing an increase in sales. Today I had a sales record on SS! So yep, good times for SS contributors!

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Thank you! As it happens it is also the first time I've exceeded $250 from a single day from one agency alone. Not bad from a place where everyone keeps telling us we only earn "25c a download". My RPD as SS so far this month is currently running at $1.33. Good times for SS contributors!

Wonderful!

Last month was pretty poor on ELs for me, but the "ODs and SODs" (that always makes me laugh) are going pretty well.

Well done to morning.light too. Wishing you both (and all) many more sales and increasingly high returns.

Thank you! As it happens it is also the first time I've exceeded $250 from a single day from one agency alone. Not bad from a place where everyone keeps telling us we only earn "25c a download". My RPD as SS so far this month is currently running at $1.33. Good times for SS contributors!

Wonderful!

Last month was pretty poor on ELs for me, but the "ODs and SODs" (that always makes me laugh) are going pretty well.

Well done to morning.light too. Wishing you both (and all) many more sales and increasingly high returns.

Noticed the same with EL's, last 2 months have been light on for me, well under my usual amount. Hoping it returns to normal levels soon! And yes, congrats on the big sales guys!

Just got a $112 SD from an image that sold only one time for $0.36 in three years its been on SS. I commented in a different thread yesterday that I had only one D/L all day and now there selling again. Go figure. The SD's and OD's have been great.....thank you SS!

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« Reply #94 on: April 05, 2013, 19:40 »

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This business is this way- just when you want to give up you have great day in sales!